Studio Bisig Rocchelli . photos: © Maurin Bisig
This old house was built in the traditionally alpine technique of interwoven tree logs -strickbau- as the Walser folk settled on this mountain. The house is divided into two properties, it has been patched and cheaply renovated over the years, so that the original Walser foorplan -austere and straight forward- was no longer readable. This project aimed to unveil the old structure of the house: once most of the traces and left over of the 70’s and 80’s were cleared out, the geometrical pureness of this construction became perceivable again.
The deployed timber comes from the forests of the surrounding region whereas several old wooden elements, such as antique beams, have been collected in a village nearby and reused on site.
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